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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Burberry Mini-Haul

After shooting pictures of the Burberry Spring Collection, I was faced with the decision of what to bring home with me. Since the Spring Collection only featured a single limited edition item (Pink Sweet Pea Lip Glow) I felt relatively calm in the face of all of the beautiful products that were just launched.

I haven't yet pick up either of the new blushes- because I couldn't decided which one I wanted- so I decided to hold off, for now.

We really do have such similar taste in makeup, Helen--I love it! I am SO jealous you got the Fresh Glow--I want that SO bad and it will definitely be my next liquid highlighter purchase (as I probably won't be wearing it as a primer bc of my very oily skin). Also, Midnight Plum? YES! Gimme gimme gimme!! :D

We really do, Becca!! Fresh Glow is awesome!! I worked my way through two sample packets and knew that I had to have it!!! It's definitely gorgeous as a highlighter-- I think as long as you keep it off of your t-zone you should probably be okay. My skin is definitely combination and it hasn't given me any trouble, Midnight Plum is sooooooo yummy. It's perfect for you!!!!!! :D

Your Burberry posts make my heart race. I was lucky enough to be given a few samples. They were beautifully packaged in the same Burberry box as yours. I now use it to hold 2/3 of my makeup. I get a thrill every time I see it!

Ps I excited over your future Midnight Plum swatches & comparisons. It's a gorgeous eyeshadow. I'd love to get it but I think my first Burberry purchase will be Trench. I know, so boring... but my skin-coloured eyeshadow (LORAC) is currently the closest one to pan. (Yay for the dip!)

OMG- Midnight Plum is sublime!!!!!!!!!!! I need to photograph it tomorrow so that I can use it!!!! Trench isn't at all boring-- it's an AWESOME shadow-- it's definitely on my list! WOOHOO-- you are gonna hit the pan on your LORAC e/s and then Trench will be yours!!!!!!!!!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! <3

I'm excited for your review on Fresh Glow. I tested it and wasn't impressed. A bit too liquidy for highlighter and the sheer luminous foundation was glowy enough for my tast. But you probably will convince me otherwise :D. Haven't tried anything limited edition for a while now. I'm still waiting for an exceptional collection to splurge :)

Hi Joanne! I really like Fresh Glow-- I used up two sample packets and loved it so much that I knew that I had to have it. I am going to use it a while longer and then I will definitely review it! The Sheer Luminous Foundation is so nice-- I will probably get one after I use up one of my foundations or tinted moisturizers. It really is so nice shopping from permanent collections so that you don't have to buy in a frenzy!! Exceptional collection are always so much fun, but can get so expensive!! :)

Darling lola, I have a request for you. Can you do a my favorite foundations post? I myself am a foundation addict and I am still mourning my discontinued Chanel Prolumiere. Right now, in lieu of its radiance, I am loving the new Dolce and Gabanna luminous liquid foundation and the Benefit hello flawless fluid foundation; in spite of my nasty oily Tzone (thanks to Hourglass primer that is!!)I am still waiting for the arrival of my oils. I will keep you posted ;)

Hi wefadetogray! Yes, I would be happy to!! :-) I will pull out all of the foundations and tinted moisturizers that I have in rotation, and will start mulling over a post. I hate in when they discontinue something that is so beloved. Chanel seems to have done that a fair amount over the years :-( I haven't tried D&G or Benefit Foundations- do you like them? I have an oily t-zone as well. Is the Hourglass primer (which I love!!) making your tzone more oily, or is it keeping your tzone oils in check?

I CAN'T WAIT fro you to get your oils-- I certainly hope that you love them. I hope that you are truly delighted by the Rodin Olio Lusso!! :-)

The hourglass primer is certainly helping in keeping the oils relatively at bay. Due to the awfully oily nature of my Tzone I sould probably wear other type of foundations, less luminous, but I just adore the finish of them! You need to try to D&G; it is amazing. However, if you do not like your natural shine to shine through, maybe it is better to skip it. I have used all kinds of primers, including the Cover fx matte one which is supposed to be increidible for oil slicks like me, but sadly it did not work. Laura Mercier's primer works well too, till some extent. Nothing has been able to prevent my Tzone from becoming nasty after a few hours of wearing my foundation. I use Caudalie sos serum to keep my skin hydrated but my nose refuses to accept any help :(If you have any tips, please let me know!

I love the Hourglass Primer- it is so fabulous- definitely a best in class primer! I love luminous finishes as well! I will definitely take a look at the D&G foundation- I much prefer a glowing foundation to a matte formula!

I definitely have an active Tzone as well, but it sounds as though yours is a bit more active than mine. For me, all roads lead to facial oils, and I found that the proper facial oils actually balanced out my natural oil production-- I know that it sounds counterintuitive, but facial oils have been the secret weapon in my beauty arsenal for years and years now. There are some even specifically formulated for balancing oily and acne prone skin types. The one that I used for years was the Suki Pure Moisture Balancing, and it really did wonders for my combination skin:

It might be worth tracking down a sample to see how it works for you (assuming that the ingredients are on your okay to use list). I haven't used it for a while- and now use Rodin Olio Lusso Luxury Facial Oil and Sponge Ladi Avokanto- but the Suki Oil is affordable and fantastic.

You might also consider carrying blotting papers, if you don't already-- they are worth their weight in gold for those with oilier complexions. I think that one of the most important things to remember with oily skin (whether all over the face, or restricted to the Tzone- is not to over stress the skin by using too many heavily alcohol-laden products that shock the skin into overdrive- and produce even more oil. I think that we were mistakenly brought up to think that treating oily skin harshly would keep the oils at bay- when in fact the opposite is generally true. :-)

Thanks for your wealth of knowledge Lola! I actually love oils. I use the oil cleansing method every night to remove my makeup and use organic, cold pressed coconut oil (for its antibacterial properties mainly)on my face afterwards. I will try the Rodin olio lusso face oil since you love it so much and hope my nose behaves humanly!! I use the tatcha blotting papers but I honestly blot my nose 4 times a day. It is just not pretty.I am happily waiting for your foundation review before purchasing a new one :)

I have no scientific basis for this comment, but I have actually read that Coconut Oil in higher concentration can actually clog pores on the face. I have no idea whether or not it is doing that to you, but was your tzone as oily as it is now before you began using the cold pressed Coconut Oil on your face. I know that it has fantastic antibacterial and antimicrobial properties, but I wonder whether it might be part of the problem in such a pure form and therefore high concentration. My mom was slathering all over her face as a moisturizer about 6 months ago, and she ended up having a pretty bad reaction-- though it seems that it was more of an allergic reaction. Again, I could be completely off base but it is the first thing that popped in my head after reading what you wrote.

Since Olio Lusso Facial Oil is so expensive- I wonder if you could try a sample first to see if it works for your skin. I would hope that you would fall madly in love with it and have similarly miraculous results as I have had-- but there's no way to know whether it will work for you as it has for me. I started out with a couple of samples because I didn't want to spent $150.00 without knowing that I really liked it and whether the benefits were tangible enough to justify the expense. Thankfully it worked as I had hoped. This sampling method has saved me countless thousands of dollars of skincare products that I'm glad that I never bothered to buy. It has also cost me thousands of dollars on things that I raced out to buy after sampling them!! :-)

Interesting that you are using the Tatcha Blotting papers and still having to blot 4 times a day. I used to carry my Shiseido blotting papers with me wherever I went, but finally stopped carrying them around because I tweaked my skincare routine enough that i no longer seem to be producing enough excess oil to actually warrant blotting!

I am still percolating on the Foundation review-- I shot some pictures and am mulling the whole thing over in my head. Rather than writing about one Holy Grail foundation-- ostensibly because I don't have a single be all end all that would have me toss everything else in the trash. So instead I pulled all full sized foundations, BB Creams, and tinted moisturizers that are in my current rotation. So After I get a handle on how I feel about each of them- then I will do a post. I imagine that I will have something up next week! :-)

So I did some scouting work based on the location mentioned in your other post, and I'm glad I did because no other location is doing the gift with purchase and Jason said that he only had 1 duo of lippies left when I spoke to him. So I did the dreaded thing and purchased some of the collection without seeing it (though your swatches made that a little less painful). But I figured if I was picking up some of the collection anyway I wanted those gorgeous lipsticks! He's also throwing in some samples! He was fantastic to work with! I told him to throw in his card and I would add it to my collection of sa I love pile. =)

Hi Rachel! Sorry that I didn't catch your question before you spent the time trying to figure out where I bought mine! I'm glad that you figured it out and snagged the last GWP mini lipsticks. Which things did you order? Jason is awesome! I hope that you love what you ordered! :-)

I ordered the coral pink blush, the midnight blue eye pencil, and the mallow pink gloss (to go along with the lipstick and 2 eyeshadows I already own) haha. Based on your swatches I decided I would wait on the gold pearl eyeshadow. I want to see it in person first because it doesn't look like a color I would use. I'm kinda excited about their foundation line and was waiting for your review on it, but he's sending me samples so I no longer need to =)

What lovely choices, Rachel!! I can't wait to hear what you think about them. I actually don't own the Burberry Foundation (yet, at least) I used up several sample packets and really liked it, but am on a no foundation-buy until I use up some of my current stash. I did crack under the weight of my desire to have Fresh Glow- even though I am amply stocked on primers-- but I justified it as a good purchase because my other primers aren't also illuminators- LOL!!!!!! I didn't buy Gold Pearl e/s despite the fact that it is gorgeous because I'm trying to cut down on duplicative colors-- so I just walked away from it. :-)

Yea, I have two eyeshadow highlighter colors already and I figured I would never really use that other than for the purpose. Jason tried to convince me that used wet it could be very pigmented, but based on your swatches I just didn't see it. Maybe theres more to it in person than the camera could catch, but I can wait for it. And oh! I thought it was in your burberry haul! I tried guessing what was in all those boxes and I guess I guess wrong...see what you do to us when you don't just show us whats in those boxes????

Well, it's definitely gorgeous-- but if you already have something similar then there is no reason to splurge. It is definitely buildable when used wet- so I agree with Jason there-- some of the depth was lost in the pictures. That said, it is still a very light shade and while stunning- it is dupable.

I have been trying to roll out the contents of all of those Burberry boxes, and just posted another today!! :D

Hi Meryl! Thanks! I was trying to be somewhat sensible, and not go too far overboard! I think it is a beautiful and well edited collection-- the blushes are gorgeous! The Antique Pink Lip Velvet is gorgeous! Thanks for stopping by! :D

I just stopped by Nordstrom today and I love the entire collection! I brought home both blushes even though they're so similar. The texture and quality of Burberry blushes is just something I couldn't resist.

Hi Chris!! Isn't it a gorgeous collection?!!! I'm so glad that you got both blushes-- I can't wait to read your reviews! They are similar, but different enough to warrant getting both! I agree, the texture and quality of Burberry blushes really are amazing!!!!!! <3

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